Nearly 20 species of both wintering and migrant raptors, or birds of prey, have been recorded at the Ramona grasslands, ...

Morris Island in Chatham is seeing an uptick in hikers as the year gets off to a start. What rare visitor is drawing them?

Climbing snakes can slither along branches of tall trees where they will happen upon a hawk or some other bird’s nest. Snakes ...

Witnessing a hawk is thought to be a special experience ... Hawks possess considerable hunting prowess and are mighty enough ...

He was looking at “a near fully leucistic red-tailed hawk.” Animals with leucism have reduced levels of melanin that often ...

Harris's hawks are large birds that can weigh between 1.5 and 2.5 pounds and be 18 to 22 inches long ...

Breeding: nests in a variety of forest types, preying on small- to medium-size birds and small mammals, hunting from perches under the canopy. Migration: in­creasing numbers at eastern hawk ...

Breeding season initiates a spectacular sequence of aerial acrobatics. Hawk pairs fly in large circles and gain great height before the male plunges into a deep dive and subsequent steep climb ...